Borges' esoteric library : metaphysics to metafiction
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Borges' esoteric library : metaphysics to metafiction
University Press of America, c1992
- : cloth : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-215) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Borges' use of allusion to esoteric and metaphysical doctrines is foundation for his renovation to fiction toward metafiction. Contents: Borges and the Esoteric Tradition; The Esoteric; The Fantastic, and Borges' Metafiction; Borges' Art: Metaphysics as Metafiction; The Loss of the Self; The Loss of Reality; The Loss of Time; The Loss of Words; The Loss of Salvation; "Tion, Upbar, Orbis Tertius" and The Esoteric Tradition; in Place of Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Table of Contents
- Metaphysics and Metafiction
- Metaphysiction - The Loss of the Self
- The Fiction of the Self and "The Approach to al-Mu'tasim"
- The Loss of Reality
- The Loss of Time
- The Loss of Words
- The Loss of Salvation
- In the Place of Conclusion.
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